The House intelligence committee concluded that Huawei Technologies Ltd., the Chinese tech firm, poses a national security threat to the United States. The company is one of the world’s leading supplier of telecommunications equipment. Huawei’s North American headquarters has been based in Plano since 2001. When the company first leased their 103,000 square-foot space on Tennyson Parkway in 2009, it employed 400 people in the area.

“The report released by the Committee today employs many rumors and speculations to prove non-existent accusations,” today’s statement from Huawei says.

According to the company, it has complied with investigators for the past year, giving them access to records going back to when the company started, in 1987, according to the statement:

“Our top management team carried out multiple rounds of face-to-face communication with the Committee members in Washington D.C., Hong Kong, and Shenzhen; we opened our R&D area, training center, and manufacturing center to the Committee and offered a wealth of documentation, including the list of members of the Board of Directors and the Supervisory Board over the past 10 years, and the annual sales data since our establishment in 1987; we also made the list of our shareholding employees, the shares they hold, as well as information about our funding resources and financial operations available to the Committee. We adopted a transparent approach in providing this information to ensure the results are fact-based and unbiased, hoping the Committee’s objective review of our business activities and the global cyber security issue can clarify the misperception of Huawei.”

The committee’s recommendation warns American companies, suggesting they avoid doing business with Huawei as well as another smaller company, ZTE Corp.:

“The investigation concludes that the risks associated with Huawei’s and ZTE’s provision of equipment to U.S. critical infrastructure could undermine core U.S. national-security interests,” the committee’s report says.

According to the Wall Street Journal, bot h companies have insisted that they would not allow the Chinese government access to the equipment in the U.S.

“Our customers and partners are fully aware that this report cannot change the fact that the safety and integrity of Huawei’s solutions are well-recognized by the industry,” a statement from Huawei reads. “Currently, the integrity of Huawei’s operations and the quality and security of our products are world-proven across 140 countries around the world.”

Top Picks

ArchivesAbout this blog

About This Blog

Daily breaking news alerts from the Business staff of The Dallas Morning News.